What sort of importunity is this!"
The housekeeper gave in a little.
"Now, don't get offended, mister. Of course, you'll pay the young
lady yourself for the visit. I don't think you will do her any
wrong, she's a fine girl among us. But I must trouble you to pay
for the beer and lemonade. I, too, have to give an account to the
proprietress. Two bottles at fifty is a rouble and the lemonade
thirty--a rouble thirty."
"Good Lord, a bottle of beer fifty kopecks!" the German waxed
indignant. "Why, I will get it in any beer-shop for twelve
kopecks."
"Well, then, go to a beer-shop if it's cheaper there," Zociya
became offended. "But if you've come to a respectable
establishment, the regular price is half a rouble. We don't take
anything extra. There, that's better. Twenty kopecks change coming
to you?"
"Yes, change, without fail," firmly emphasized the German teacher.
"And I would request of you that nobody else should enter."
"No, no, no, what are you saying," Zociya began to bustle near the
door. "Dispose yourself as you please, to your heart's content.
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